Chapter 616: Unofficial History

The library of Ilvermorny occupies the center of the building complex on the west side of the castle. From the outside, it is well connected and has four corridor-shaped exits.

The interior of the library is a spacious circular building divided into three floors, which is somewhat similar to the architectural structure of Sword Castle. The first floor is a spacious reading area, with neatly arranged tables and chairs in the middle of the hall, and cubicles divided according to functions around it. Going up the circular staircase, there are rows of brown bookshelves on the second and third floors, and the collection is very rich.

Felix has been staying in it these days.

It is summer vacation, and there is no one in the library for most of the day. If he is tired of reading, he will walk between the bookshelves again and again, capturing the emotions of Ilvermorny students left here, which often brings him new feelings.

For example, although he has never met them, Felix has already known several students of Ilvermorny. They always sit in the same position, and their thoughts when reading are transformed into a long-lasting beautiful scenery for Felix to appreciate.

When Felix described their appearance, as expected, these people are all the best students.

Yuria was amazed at his ability.

Felix had seen three libraries of magic schools in total - Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Ilvermorny - each with its own characteristics. Judging from the decoration style alone, Hogwarts is majestic and ancient, Beauxbatons is elegant and comfortable, and Ilvermorny is more modern.

This may be because the library of Ilvermorny was established in the 17th century and referred to many Muggle libraries, so both the space layout and the book index are better done, and the number of books may be two or three times that of Hogwarts.

Of course, compared with Hogwarts, which was founded around the 10th century, the proportion of ancient books here is obviously smaller, but Felix did find the research and records of indigenous magic in a small area, which gave him a lot of inspiration. .

The development of magic in North America was later than in other places.

Felix looked through the history of this aspect and restored a superficial truth in his mind. Before the invasion of European Muggle colonists, the representative group of local magic was the Native Indians. These natives did not have wands and used magic in a primitive and rough way. Moreover, because of the tribal way of survival, magic is concentrated in the hands of a few people, coupled with poor communication - there were about 160 languages ​​and 1,200 dialects at the time, all of which made the local magic civilization completely unintegrated and developed.

Despite this, there are still many merits.

The founder of Ilvermorny originally just wanted to establish a place to provide family magic education, but in order to meet the wishes of the two adopted sons, they imitated the model of Hogwarts to create a similar structure - Felix found it very interesting when he read this, because Isolt Sayer had never been to Hogwarts, and all the common sense she knew was told to her by her evil aunt Gormlaith Gaunt after exaggeration. In Gormlaith's words, Hogwarts was a "dangerous place full of mudbloods and advocating egalitarianism", and she tore up the admission letter sent to Isolt by Hogwarts, which made the concept of 'Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry' exist only in the imagination of the founder of Ilvermorny.

What's more interesting is that the curses and abuses from Aunt Gormlaith not only didn't work, but made the young Isolt think it was heaven.

She told her two adopted sons about her imaginary Hogwarts, and the whole family was fascinated. So there was "Ilvermorny", four seemingly correct colleges, a sorting ceremony, and most importantly, the wand. They did it properly, and the nearby indigenous people came here because of its reputation. This made the entire Ilvermorny school finally get rid of the embarrassing situation that it couldn't fill the four colleges because there were only two students (although they didn't care). Isolt herself and her two adopted sons who grew up tried to combine local magic with European magic to form Ilvermorny's own characteristics.

Those local magics - such as primitive magic rituals, hunting war songs developed by imitating the roars of magical animals, and the techniques of using magical animal and plant materials and organs to cast spells... and other materials, many of which seemed to be true, but Felix still recorded them and planned to try them later.

He constructed a sound magic based on the calls of Parseltongue and the evil bird. Unlike the Amplification Spell, it is more similar to the Parseltongue curse that Voldemort had used on him, and Felix also tried to incorporate the sound wave theory in physics into it.

Using sound waves to carry magical power is not only faster, but also more secretive...

For example, once the ultrasonic waves of bats are combined with the magic of the Mind Cabin, Felix can quickly construct the real environment around him in his brain and cover it with illusions. The effect of this magic is terrifying: when facing Felix, the enemy may never be able to distinguish what is real and what is illusory.

Even if it is just the simplest positioning function, spells such as the Invisibility Cloak and the Disillusionment Spell will hardly work, not to mention the damage caused to the human body by large-scale infrasound waves.

Felix estimated that he would rarely have the opportunity to use it, but the fun of solving puzzles and constructing a new subject made him addicted to it. He just took the time to go back to Hogwarts and gave the snakewood branch to Professor Sprout.

"This kind of plant that retains vigorous vitality while being affected by powerful magical power for a long time is extremely rare." Professor Sprout said excitedly, wishing to hug Felix and kiss him twice.

"Can it survive?" Felix hurriedly changed the subject.

"It's easy to keep it alive, but if you want to keep its magical properties, you have to take good care of it. It may take one or two years to cultivate it. This is a big challenge for me." Although he said so, Professor Sprout smiled and was not worried at all. "I have to find Severus. I found that he is very talented in this area. Kerry can testify!"

She left in a hurry.

After Felix re-strengthened the defense of classroom No. 7, he returned to Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During this period, the headmaster of Ilvermorny accepted an interview with the outside world and revealed a "dusty history" for the first time.

"The snakewood wand meant a miserable childhood for Ms. Isolt Sayer," said Headmaster Zechariah solemnly. "Her evil aunt used this wand to kill Ms. Isolt's parents and tortured her cruelly - until she had the courage to escape." "

Although this wand once helped Ms. Isolt Sayer escape, she eventually chose to bury her past with her husband and embrace a happy life. Looking back on this history, I always feel fortunate: because her choice not only created a new Ilvermorny, but also left us a magical plant with powerful healing effects."

"Compared with the shadow brought by the wand, Ms. Isolt Sayer must be more pleased to see this change - what we need is not violence, but medicine that can heal people's hearts." "

In addition, I would like to thank Mr. Dumbledore and Mr. Hep..."

The impact of these words is far-reaching.

At least, the Stewart family members who had been jumping up and down and acting as oppressed victims in the past few days finally calmed down, and the final result was just as Principal Zechariah said, "The evergreen snakewood tree will always stand in front of Ilvermorny Castle, witnessing the friendship between the two magic schools..."

Because of his role in this incident, Yuria successfully became a director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Although he was still a long way from his dream of "changing the living environment of American wizards", he was at least on the right track.

And the first task he got was to represent the Magical Congress of the United States of America as an escort to the Grand Master Felix Hepp.

The two took this opportunity to talk about the political environment within the Congress. Perhaps because he had a deeper understanding of the operating logic of the Magical Congress, a huge magical power institution, Yuria's ideas became more objective and pragmatic.

This is a difference in perspective.

In the past, Yuria and even the members of the Reform Society could only raise questions and discover problems, and they were dissatisfied and resentful because of the Magical Congress's complacency with the status quo, but now their ideas have changed to how to solve the problem.

"It's tricky." Yuria sighed, "There are many practical reasons for the closed magic environment and strict laws in the United States. The more I dig, the more headaches I have."

Felix listened attentively.

"The Magical Congress of the United States restricts wizards from No-Maj families because they are worried that the events of the Puritans and the Purgers will happen again..."

This is another dusty history. Felix nodded and thought, in simple terms, Puritans are some extreme religious people, they are Muggles, and historically they are keen to accuse others of using witchcraft, so their attitude towards wizards can be imagined.

It is worth mentioning that when Ilvermorny's founder Isolt Sayer came to North America, she was on the Mayflower cruise ship carrying many Puritans, who were persecuted in the UK and turned to persecute others in the New World. The Scourers

are wizards. Or, they used to be wizards. They were originally a group of wizard mercenaries from different countries, who were profit-seeking and even sold out their compatriots for bounties, such as selling wizards to Puritans and burning them to death.

After the establishment of the Magical Congress of the United States, it began to liquidate and execute these traitors among wizards, but some people escaped punishment. They dared not show magic anymore, but pretended to live as Muggles, but the matter did not end with their death. Instead of repenting, these wizard traitors extended their hatred of the Magical Congress of the United States to the entire North American wizards, and passed this resentment from generation to generation.

Several serious exposure incidents in the history of American magic are almost all related to the descendants of the Purgers. The most far-reaching one shocked and frightened the entire wizarding world. The Magical Congress of the United States of America received a severe warning from the International Confederation of Wizards, and thus promulgated the infamous Rappaport Law, forcing the strict separation of No-Maj and the wizarding world to prevent such incidents from happening again.

"In this country, some No-Maj families have never seen magic, but they firmly believe that magic exists." Yuria said sadly, "It's just that they think all wizards should be eliminated."

Felix said slowly, "I heard Dumbledore mention that the people in America seem to be more difficult to be deceived and blinded by magic than people in other places..."

"That's the reason." Yuria said, "But it's far more than that - when all the above are put together, American wizards are also facing a terrible threat -"

"Muggle government." Felix said solemnly.

"That's right," Yuria said affirmatively, "Wizards are not a secret in the eyes of the Muggle government, at least not to those high-ranking officials." He added, "Since the independence of the Muggle government, there have been several vicious conflicts between the two sides. The Muggle government wants to crack the secrets of wizards or force wizards to serve them, but we resist firmly. Congress secretly destroyed some laboratories and erased some people's memories... In short, all kinds of open and secret struggles once approached the brink of war..."

"I've heard of a saying," he lowered his voice, "In 1892, the then Chairman of the Magical Congress of the United States and the President of the Muggle government secretly negotiated and reached an agreement on non-interference, which has continued to this day."

"Can I see the agreement?" Felix said excitedly.

"This incident cannot be found in the official historical records. I also heard it from an old man in Congress. As for whether it is true or not, I cannot judge." Uriah shook his head and said, "I remember the textbook said that the reason for the fifth relocation of the Congress headquarters was the 'Bigfoot Rebellion'... Anyway, since then, the Magical Congress of the United States has completely moved away from Washington, the center of Muggle politics, and moved to New York, and has not moved since then."

"It does sound a bit strange to hear you say that."

Felix touched his chin. You know, the Magical Congress of the United States has only been established for three hundred years, but in the first two hundred years, it moved five times for various 'weird reasons', but the British Ministry of Magic has never done this once.

What happened in 1892?

At that time, Dumbledore was only eleven years old and had just entered school. He might not be familiar with this history. And as far as Felix knew, Dumbledore did not follow the school tradition to travel after graduation. Instead, Grindelwald, in order to develop his "career", once stayed in the United States. Well, the old man was also arrested here for the first time, and Newt contributed a lot...

Neither Felix nor Dumbledore told Grindelwald - in classroom seven, the memory of a magical animal lover was alive and kicking all day long - they chose to remain silent without any prior agreement.

Felix left Ilvermorny in mid-August.

Before leaving, the headmaster of Ilvermorny tried to retain him several times, hoping that he could give a few open classes to the students of Ilvermorny, but now it was summer vacation, so he could only arrange another time.

However, this incident made Felix think a lot. With that international exchange activity, the influence of ancient magic has expanded to the entire wizarding world, but if you want to make this subject deeply rooted in people's hearts, you still have to rely on school education.

Beauxbatons recruited seven or eight Hogwarts graduates in one go this year.

After returning to the familiar campus, before Felix could catch his breath, the Ancient Rune Yearbook event began. Many students, such as Harry, who had just finished his trip, were surprised to find that many classmates who had just graduated for one or two years gathered together again because of this event.

These students were deeply marked by Felix Hep, and he taught them all. If you have to find a different group of people, it would be those in the Ancient Rune Association. Harry never thought that he would discuss the future of ancient runes with a group of old men and old ladies.

"Some of them are old enough to be my great-grandfather." Ron whispered to Harry.

But no matter how weird it felt, three days later, the Ancient Rune Yearbook with their names printed on it was published all over the world.